Chapter 32: Leg, please come to daddy
Zero was still on his wheel chair. Those stairs were a huge pain, and Zero struggled to get up. He usually asked X, or Alia. Because we all know who he WOULDN'T ask and why.
"So when are we gonna get his leg fixed?" Pallette asked Layer.
"We'll never know. I feel sorry for Zero…" Layer replied.
Zero heard that. He sighed and kept rolling. While he was, he saw Axl drinking a can of pop while walking. He had another one on his hand. He gave it to Zero.
"Just take it. I'm giving it to you." Axl said.
"Why?" Zero asked.
"Because I'm a good sport." Axl invented.
Zero shrugged, and to his surprise, that can was SHOOK.
"You little bastard!" Zero scolded.
Axl ran away as Zero rolled on the wheel chair. Axl was too fast… for now. He was desperate to get his leg back. But Axl came back.
"Well, since I'm such a good sport, I'll give you another one. Here."
He went to the vending machine and got another can of pop, and gave it to Zero. The red Hunter simply opened it and drank away.
"It's tough, right?" Axl asked.
"What?" Zero muttered.
"Being on a wheel chair. Losing one leg. All that. It's tough, is it?" Axl asked.
Zero looked down to his one remaining leg. He sighed, and replied, "Yeah."
"Just be thankful it's not forever." Axl consoled.
"Um… yeah." Zero replied to his opinion.
He then attempted to get back up to the stairs so he can get some sleep, but he couldn't, obviously, with one leg and a wheel chair. Axl sighed and helped him out. He tried his best and brought him to his room.
"Thanks, buddy." Zero thanked the young Hunter.
Axl left.
Zero sighed.
It's just 8:30 PM and I am in my room, trying to sleep so early. If I had two legs, I'd still be up going wild… Zero thought with a huge sigh.
He shed a single tear.
X, meanwhile, was in Alia's room.
"(Sigh) Zero is really in for some bad time. Can you fix his leg ASAP, Alia?" X asked.
"I'll try… though it's hard. Tomorrow morning, I'll continue fixing it."
X went to his room. He read that book of his again.
Axl meanwhile, was playing video games. He was playing Mega Man Anniversary Collection, and was playing Mega Man 5. He didn't even know if that Proto Man was real or a simple clone Dr. Wily made.
The next day…
Zero got up back into his wheel chair and rolled downstairs for breakfast. But he just forgot he was on a WHEEL CHAIR.
Zero sighed and went back to his room to rest more.
X and Axl, in the meantime, were playing chess. X was winning badly, while Axl had only a Pawn and a King remaining. X thought it would have been much more fun with Zero when playing chess, because Axl was such an easy foe. Zero was almost always winning… Ah, such fun times.
Zero wheeled down the hallway. He looked at X and Axl playing chess. Seeing Axl lose that horribly reminded of some memories…
BEGIN FLASHBACK
Zero: HA! Check!
Axl: Um… okay…
(Axl moves the Rook to check Zero's bishop)
Zero: Do you even know how to play chess?
Axl: Uh…
Zero: Whatever! CHECKMATE!
(Zero checks Axl's King with a Pawn)
Axl: Yaaaaaaaay!
END FLASHBACK
Zero shed another tear.
Audience: How come it's always single tear? Not nine or ten!
Author: Because I said so!
Sigh…
So where was I?
Oh, yes. Now I remember. (Sarcasm) Good memory.
It was about time Zero had to get out of that wheel chair.
"Mr. Zero! Please come to the engineering! Your leg has been fixed!" Pallette announced from the POA.
Zero rolled as fast as he could to the engine room. But sadly…
When he just arrived, he saw his beautiful leg was ready to come back, but just as he entered the engine room, his wheel chair tipped when Axl accidentally dropped his pistol, and the wheel got caught and made Zero fall backwards to the VERY hard floor. Zero screamed in pain after his tarso got damaged.
"AAAAAA! NO! WHY GOD, WHY?" Zero screamed in extreme pain.
To be continued...
Oh, and last chapter's vote:
IRIS is the winner! I guess she and Zero, after all, were good couples in the first place.